Knox Refuses to Spare Destroyers for Britain
Navy Secretary Knox declared the navy cannot spare any destroyers for aid to Great Britain. He said the department has no more destroyers to spare than needed for a Dalastead fleet and opposed depleting vessels further. Willkie’s proposal drew serious consideration but faces yard and production limits.
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W.oo
Knox
Navy
Wendell L. Willkie
Great Britain
Dalastead
Willkie
England
Roosevelt
White House
Stephen Early
Winchester Praises Band Ahead of Sunday Concert
The article lauds the band as performing better than ever after faithful rehearsals. It predicts next Sunday's show will equal or surpass past efforts and calls it one of the event passages of the years.
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Band Mu
Three-Way Tie For Smallest Town Population
A three way tie for the flyweight population championship of American towns was declared with Graysonia Arkansas Ophir Colorado and Eagle Harbor Maryland each reporting two residents in the 1940 census. The Maryland hamlet Arundel on the Bay previously held the title with eight people. Other state samples include Caseyville Kentucky 67 Gloria Glens Park Ohio 6 Mount Gretna Pennsylvania 42 Brand onville West Virginia 113 Duffield Virginia 83. Connecticut Delaware Maine and Vermont were excluded as they classify townships as towns.
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Graysonia
Ark
Ophir
Colo
Eagle
Harbor
Arundel On the Bay
Maryland
Caseyville
Gloria Glens Park
Ohio
Mount Gretna
Brandonville
W. Va
Duffield
Connecticut
Delaware
Mas
Vermont
Senate panel approves seven House British aid amendments
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed in principle seven House amendments to the administration's British aid bill. It includes a $1.3 billion cap on war matériel transfers to other nations and rejects binding language on stricter transfer limits. The panel also favored House provisions to revoke British aid powers by concurrent resolution, not subject to the president.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Cnegal
Congress
Foreign Relations Committee
President Pays Tribute To Lincoln on His Birthday
President visits Lincoln statue rites on February 12 with Mrs. Leepee and the son, marking the Civil War leader’s birthday anniversary. Public ceremony includes a wreath at the statue’s foot amid national crisis era symbolism.
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Lincoln
Eepee
Firemen Guests Laugh At Pro Humorist At Banquet
The 47th annual fire company banquet honored Charles Broad Way Rouss with Gillilan as the featured speaker. Congressman A Willis Robertson branded Hitler as the world’s number one enemy and warned America would face him if England fell. Music came from two orchestras and pastors Rev R A Whitten and Rev T M Swann participated.
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Aed Eee
Alent 1
Assenna
Charles Broadway Rouss
Prince
New York
Finnegan
Gillilan
Alien Hawthorne
Mark Twain
Kipling
James W. Riley
Will Travers
Homer
Nas
Saltese
Handley
W. H. MclIiwee
Robertson
Comte
Hagerstown Rail Conductor Killed Near Union Bridge
UNION BRIDGE Md Feb 12 Michael F Frigley of Hagerstown conductor of local freight No 303 Western Maryland Railroad was killed instantly when struck by helper engine No 810 at a siding. Train crew warned but Frigley stepped onto the main line. Both legs severed and skull fractured surgeon Dr T H Legg said.
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Union Bridge
Michael F. Frigley
Hagerstown
Western Maryland Railroad
T. H. Legg
Frigleyer
Grand Army of Eastern Shore Headlines Crow Invasion Casualties
The Grand Army of the Eastern Shore claims an official casualty list of about 1350 crows on Jeffer son Island during their annual invasion. The effort, begun six years ago, draws doctors and professionals to help rout the birds with shotgun fire under clear weather and moonlight.
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Baston
Jefferson Island
Tilghman
Delmarva
Letter From the Sea Found Aboard Birmingham Ship
A message in a bottle found from Lerwick Shetland dated January 4 1941 recounts Henkel a first mate from Winchester a former resident who tossed it overboard from the U S Birmingham City en route Avonmouth England to Portland Maine on a cold rainy night with a half gale. The envelope bore opened by censor markings and the war between England and Germany had begun by the Birmingham s arrival in Portland.
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Lerwick
Shetland
Henkel
Merchant Marine
Winchester
U. S
Birmingham
Avonmouth
Eng
Portland
Russell
England
Germany
Hammer and Tongs
Clarke County School Board Meets Over Tentative Budget
Clarke County School Board plans a meeting tonight to review the tentative budget for the next fiscal year. A joint session with the Board of Supervisors is likely next week, possibly Wednesday. The board aims to decide on school construction and may seek a state literary loan at the February 28 State Board meeting to avoid delays.
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Clarke County School Board
Board of Supervisors
Suspect Held Over Maryland Church Fire
In Hagerstown Maryland Captain William H Peters announced charges will be presented to the grand jury this month against Elton C Laughlin 47 of near Dry Run Pennsylvania in the January blaze at St Mary s Church Laughlin confessed claiming he entered the church around six pm removed vestments and lighted a cigarette after dawn and said he was drunk and disliked Catholics the landlady questioned and Laughlin said he could not recall all details further notes he is married with four children
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Hagerstown
William H. Peters
St. Mary’s Oe Church
Peters
Elton C. Laughlin
Near Dry Run
Charles Wagaman
Laughlin
Heeming & Fire and
Red Army Names New Staff Head in Moscow Announcement
Moscow February 12 reports General C. K. Zhukoff has been appointed vice commissar of defense and chief of the general staff of the Red Army. The former head K A Maretzkoff will serve as vice-commissar of defense.
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Moscow
C. K. Zhukoff
Defense
Red Army
K. A. Maretzkoff
Dfense
Government Is Being Fleeced Says Attorney
Thurman Arnold testified that the government faced excessive and unreasonable prices for essential war materials due to agreements between domestic and foreign firms and collusive bidding on Army and Navy contracts. He urged expanded antitrust enforcement and noted foreign patent schemes and German control of defense industries as disclosed to grand juries.
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Washington
Thurman Arnold
Arnold
Federal Monopoly Committee
United States
Congress
Justice Department
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Los Angeles
Puzzling Case For F B I Men
Miami Beach Florida February 12 Detective Chief Earl D Carpenter said part of 675000 in cash and jewels reported missing from a Star Island estate had been found in the home He predicted all the treasure would be located Mrs Roe Wells reported the money and jewelry had disappeared from hiding places Detective Billy Baker said about 20000 was located between bed blankets and some gems were found Carpenter said Mrs Wells told him she missed 400000 in cash Monday and another 75000 yesterday The detective said the 400000 was kept in a secret drawer of a dresser and the 75000 plus jewels were in a locked clothes closet to which she alone had the key
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Miami Beach
Fila
Earl D. Carpenter
Star Island
Roe Wells
Carpenter
Wells
Billy Baker
Earl Carpenter
Yester Palmer
Bingo Night Returns to New Eagle Home
Weekly bingo event held every Wednesday at 7 pm at the New Eagle's Home located at 211 N Loudaun St. Community members invited for games and community gathering in a local venue.
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New Eagle's
Loudoun St
Disorders In Holland Stir Tensions With Occupiers
Amsterdam police probe unrest in recent days amid friction among Dutch citizens Dutch Nazis and German authorities. Reports from The Hague note arrests including a leather merchant over provocative attitudes toward German soldiers and prior incidents in November and October raising concern about Dutch resistance and occupation measures.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Hague
Netherlands
Netherlands East Indies
The
Guardsmen To Be At Meade By 20th
Fort Meade Md Feb 12 All units of the 29th Division except the 176th Field Artillery will assemble at Fort Meade by February 20 General Reckford said the arrival dates for few Maryland Virginia and Pennsylvania guardsmen are not fixed yet About 1 200 29th Division men are at the camp with 3 828 of 7 000 trainees to be called from the area for induction The text lists assignments to Fort Lee Belvoir Mon a Myer Eustice Pendleton and additional posts with a portion to Fort Knox Benning and other bases
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Fort George G. Meade
176Th Field Artillery
Pittsburgh
Fort Meade
Milton A. Reckford
National Guard
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Reckford
Bockford
121St Engineers
104Th Ordnance Company
Washington
Fort Lee
Fort Belvoir
Fort Mona
Fort Myer
Fort Eustice
Camp Pendleton
Coast Artillery
Fort Knox
Fort Benning
Indiantown Gap
New Cumberland
Meade
Edgewood Arsenal
Holabiard
Britain to Recall 19 Year Olds for Army Draft
London bulletin reports immediate call up of 19 year olds for military service with later drafts for men 37 to 40. It notes plans to register women for industrial draft to replace men entering uniform.
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London
Britain
British Forces Capture Inland Town Near Massawa in Eritrea
British forces advancing on Asmara and Massawa, key Eritrean targets, reported capturing another inland town and pressing from the west on two fronts according to general headquarters dispatch.
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Cairo
Egypt
Asmara
Italy
Eritrea
Red Sea
Massawa
Roosevelt asks Congress for large navy building funds
President Roosevelt asked Congress for 898,392,932 dollars in cash and contract authorizations to speed up the navy shipbuilding program and to fund a major expansion of shore facilities as part of a vast fleet expansion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Death by own action cited in Krivitsky case
Washington and Charlottesville reports show friends and police debating whether General Walter Krivitsky died by his own hand or was assassinated. Eitel Dobert, his last respondent, claimed Krivitsky bought a .38 pistol in Charlottesville and planned suicide. Charles Henshaw identified the weapon. investigators questioned Dobert and his wife as they traced Krivitsky’s movements toward New York.
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Washington
Walter G. Krivitsky
Krivitsky
Eitel Wolf Dobert
Dobert
Charlottesville
Charles Henshaw
Walter Krivitsky
Horace E. Caranfa
George E. Darnell
Washington Police Department
Eitel Dobert
Gilbert Station
Doberts
Union Station
New York
Albemarle County
City And County Brevities Firemen honor long-serving member
At the Charley Rouss Fire Company 47th annual banquet McKim Diffenderfer the eldest member at 89 was praised for his long service and parade presence. Maurice M. Lynch Dean of the Winchester Bar aged 86 attended as an outstanding guest. Grover Clevenger and Oscar Duncan returned from Florida with fishing tales, including a 12 pound bass and a seven pound catch.
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McKim Diffenderfer
Charley Rouss
Maurice M. Lynch
Winchester
Lynch
Grover Clevenger
Oscar Duncan
Florida
Oscar
Grover
Spain's entry to help Italy discussed amid war talk
The Associated Press reports Premier Mussolini and Francisco Franco met in Italy amid speculation Spain may enter the war. Petain arrives in France en route to a possible meeting. Balkans show heavy German buildup with trains carrying munitions and tanks.
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Associated Press
Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Italy
Spain
Philippe Petain
Cagnes
France
Balkans
Belgrade
Hugoslavia
Hitler
Romania
Balkan
Hungary
Danube
Bulgaria
Balkas
England
Ploma
Switzerland
Axis
Il Duce
Britain
Franco
Pius XII
Berlin
Oe Eer
Ridic Anyatiow
Vichy
Booth to Speak Friday at George Washington Hotel
Dr C D Booth from New York, Royal Institute of Intel Affairs member and former British major, will lecture in Winchester. His appearance is the first in a series sponsored by the public and will occur at 8 o clock Friday night with admission of 1 for the lecture.
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Handley ~ School
C. Douglas Booth
New York
Royal Institute of Intel Affairs
Booth
Winchester
Eis
George Washington Hotel
Celtivets von Cabres Barnaley
Bingo at Sarah Zane Fire Hall Event
Feb 13 at 8 30 p m at Sarah Zane Fire Hall features 20 20 prizes with a 100 grand prize. Admission as listed.
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Sarah Zane Fire Hall
Adm
Valentine Candy at Brook's Pharmacy
Heart shaped candy packages offered by Brook's Pharmacy with special pricing. Phone contact 766.
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Valentine
Brook's Pharmacy
Fragments Signal Wise Lad Auction on Saturday
A fragmented OCR notice lists thirty seven acres to be sold on house property at noon Saturday. The notes include a land parcel identifier 2-41-IP-31 and refer to an estate auction.
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ORAB
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Senate Committee
Strickland Cinyma
Willis Robertson
Grand Army of Eastern Sho
Clarke County
Elton Laughlin
Hagerstown Police
F.B.I. Men
Holland
Gen. Reckord
Bulletins
Royal Air Force
C. D. Booth
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